Why does this return 1?

Help and Feedback Scripting Support
, ,
1

My goal is to make a script that when a 25 second intermission is over, will spawn a map that is randomly chosen.

However, local mapName will return 1 (there is only 1 map), saying "1 is not a valid member of Folder “ReplicatedStorage.Maps” - Server - GameHandler:6

I searched on Google, DevForum, and YouTube, but nothing fixed my issue, only making it worse

local gameStatus = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("GameStatus")
local gameTimer = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("TimerStatus")
local lobbyCFrame = workspace:WaitForChild("Lobby"):WaitForChild("SpawnLocation").CFrame + Vector3.yAxis*5
local maps = game.ReplicatedStorage.Maps:GetChildren()
local mapsLength = #maps
local random = math.random(1, mapsLength)
local mapName = game.ReplicatedStorage.Maps[random]
local INTERMISSION = 25

while true do
	for countDown = INTERMISSION, 0, -1 do
		gameStatus.Value = "Intermission"
		gameTimer.Value = countDown
		task.wait(1)
	end
	gameStatus.Value = "Starting Game"
	task.wait(5)
	gameStatus.Value = "Map Name: "..mapName
	task.wait(5)
	local map = mapName:Clone()
	map.Parent = workspace
end

Please do not ask people to write entire scripts or design entire systems for you. If you can’t answer the three questions above, you should probably pick a different category.

2

Because you’re indexing the instance itself, not selecting a random child of it.
Change line 7 to:

local chosenMap = maps[random] -- Instance
local mapName = chosenMap.Name -- The Instance's name.

and use these variables to load your desired map.

2 Likes
3

Instead of saying that last line, do:

local mapName = maps[random]

This is because game.ReplicatedStorage.Maps is an instance, not a table.

4

Didn’t see your post, sorry lol

Edit #2: Im being stupid ignore my last edit

5

This works, although how would I get the 3rd to last line, local map = mapName:Clone() to work? Sorry for the extra question

6

Use chosenMap instead of mapName for that

1 Like
7

This worked, thank you. limit

8

Make sure to mark TheRealANDRO’s post as the solution

9

This topic was automatically closed 14 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.